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It’s only June and we already have 20 fantastic sessions confirmed for BGA24! These cover manual-curation, assembly pipelines, annotation, tools for manipulation and exploration and more! You can find out more at thebgacademy.org! #BGA #bioinformatics #EBP #genomics

🐚🐌🐙Excited to invite you to #Molluscs2024 in Perth this November! Join us for our triennial conference, this year themed 'Molluscs on the Edge'. Registrations and abstract submissions are open now: molluscs2024.com.au 🐙🐌🐚 Photos by Henry Carrick

Unitas Malacologica (UM) will organize the 22nd World Congress of Malacology (WCM) from August 4th to 8th 2025 at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. Stay tuned for more details!

Mark your calendars for #WCM2025 from August 4th to 8th, 2025, at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. We would like to hear from you so that we can collaboratively build an event that includes professionals from countries around the world! Survey: forms.gle/ey2ZA48VBxiXm8…

Dos nuevas especies de Solenogastres del Golfo de México

Two species of marine molluscs dating back about 430 million years have been named Punk and Emo for their outlandish spiky appearance. Read more: newscientist.com/article/246319…

Ancient Greeks knew about argonauts, but they thought they used their arms as sails, so they called them "nautilos" (ναυτίλος) meaning sailor. They didn't know about true nautiluses since they live in the Indo-Pacific, and so nautiluses were named after argonauts.

The website for the 2025 World Congress of #Malacology in São Paulo, Brazil from August 4-8 is now live! wcm2025.com.br

Applications for Unitas Malacologica Travel Grants to attend the World Congress of #Malacology in São Paulo, Brazil from August 4-8 2025 are now open! unitasmalacologica.org/projects.html

NMNH is looking to contract a museum technician for up to 2 years to lead a project with USFWS to grow collections-based freshwater mussel genetic resources. See more info here - naturalhistory.si.edu/research/inver… Gov contracting process can seem intimidating, please reach out w questions

ICYMI: WCM 2025 registration and abstract submission are now open! wcm2025.com.br

🦪 Visiting Scientific Specialist, Aquatic Biology – Work with Illinois Natural History Survey! Conduct mussel field surveys, analyze data, and contribute to scientific research. Apps due Feb. 24, 2025. 👉 Find the link to apply in the thread!

ICYMI: The deadline for student travel grant applications for the 2025 World Congress of Malacology in São Paulo, Brazil is the 28th of February 2025 (5pm GMT). unitasmalacologica.org/projects.html

[New Paper] in Progress in Oceanography reveals distribution patterns of deep-sea molluscs from Bering Sea and Aleutian Trench using 212 species (>4200 specimens) -- collected between 3500~7300 m on-board RV SONNE, "AleutBio" cruise in 2022. OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.poce…

[New Paper] is on the COVER of Science Magazine !! The FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS complete with ALL classes —including the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals! Read for FREE: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

New pub by Vicky Sleight et al. on genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic signatures of ageing and cold adaptation in the Antarctic clam Laternula elliptica (including a nice genome assembly and annotation for Laternula): royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

We’re departing on a collaborative research cruise between JAMSTEC 海洋研究開発機構 ＼海と地球の研究所／ and Ocean Census! We’ll dive with the Shinkai 6500 「しんかい6500」JAMSTEC to explore deep ecosystems in the Nankai Trough and Shichiyo Seamount Chain. Follow us on Ocean Census! PRESS RELEASE: jamstec.go.jp/e/about/press_…

En 1998 se publicó la guía Fauna Marina de Asturias I: Moluscos, más de 25 años después, este documento conserva su valor científico y divulgativo. Más información a la guía completa: pesca.asturias.es/documents/3782… #Moluscos #Asturias #Malacología

[新作] 水深約6000mから世界最深のカサガイ(笠形腹足類) を発見・新種記載! 殻長4cmはこの深さにしては非常に巨大なため、「ワンピース」ONE PIECE スタッフ【公式】/ Official の”大入道”ワダツミ + 海の神ワダツミのダブルミーニングで「ワダツミカサガイ」と命名。 論文はオープンアクセスです: doi.org/10.3897/zse.10…

This article in BBC BBC Wildlife outlines the discovery of a 'giant' limpet discovered 5,922m below the Pacific, described by C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec in Zoosystematics and Evolution. discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/m…